On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 5:16 AM Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> wrote: > > I wrote: > > some types depend on > > whether UNICODE is defined or not [1]. > > Some functions also depend whether UNICODE is defined or not. > > Since UWP applications are meant to defined the macro UNICODE, but we want > Gnulib to produce the same code, regardless whether UNICODE is defined or not, > we need to either explicitly use the functions with 'A' suffix (which is ugly) > or use #defines for redirection. > > Fortunately, packages that use gnulib don't need to do this stuff; nor do we > need to do it in the tests/ directory. Only the gnulib/lib/ directory may > reasonably be used with -DUNICODE, therefore only the gnulib/lib/ directory > needs this workaround.
In case it matters, I believe Microsoft keys on _UNICODE, not UNICODE. Microsoft source files often have something like this (or is it vice-versa): #ifdef UNICODE # ifndef _UNICODE # define _UNICODE # endif #endif Also see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/text/generic-text-mappings-in-tchar-h. Jeff
